Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

@lyliawisteria@weirder.earth that's not to mention all the other ways clocks help out

Navigation, for example. GPS for a start is just a bunch of clocks in a trenchcoat

Want to find your longitude at sea? Literally impossible without clocks

Most automation needs clocks too

Clocks: they're fucking awesome

@lyliawisteria@weirder.earth I'll jump in with a defence of the humble clock

They're great

They let you coordinate with other people, I mean if you're always on your own then maybe not but if you want to meet up with your mates at 6ish to go <activity> then clocks are what you want

Otherwise you have to be all "We'll meet up when the sun's about... thereish" and then it's cloudy and you either wait around for ages or they're waiting ages for you

@mavica same but watches

WHY MUST NICE PRETTY THINGS BE SO EXPENSIVE!?

@mavica lovely picture of the moon

@cypnk if you take "sword fighting" to mean "sword fighting against trees" then that's quite useful

chopping down trees would come in handy

@jk "Humber, Thames. Southeast veering southwest 4 or 5, occasionally 6 later. Thundery showers. Moderate or good, occasionally poor."

@mavica that typeface looks exactly right on them

neighbors wanted a hedgehog house

so I built them a hedgehog house

Cleaning out one of the hedgehog cafes and discovered one of them managed to shit half way up the wall

Like, full on shit, hanging on the side of the wall

HOW?!

THEIR LITTLE HEDGIE BUTTS DON'T EVEN GO THAT HIGH!

I ASK AGAIN, HOW?!

@penguin42 I'm talking about all the people breaking lockdown orders despite knowing that they can easily get the virus and pass it on to everyone they know

You know all those sci-fi/horror movies where the entire thing only happens because one moron doesn't follow proper quarantine protocols despite knowing a containment breach could end the goddamn world?

Yeah, I'm no longer listing that as a plot hole

Holy crap they're actually selling these

This is the Piaget Altiplano Ultimate Concept

It was a concept watch unveiled in 2018 but now they're selling them

Extremely small-scale production, like 3 per year

It's the world's thinnest watch at 2mm thick

Yeah, just 2mm

@Nine "and I don't buy it"

EYYYYYYYY!

Aw hell yeah

NEW LANGES

Does anyone want to buy a kidney? 'cause I am loving this Odysseus in white gold with a rubber strap

Please don't ask where the kidney came from

apparently the EDL and stephen yaxley-lennon have been banned from tiktok

I have no idea what they were doing on tiktok

were they trying to make sieg heiling the hot new dance craze?

fuck knows

but they're banned now

Cartier have been putting in some work

They've got the new Maillon de Cartier line which we already knew about (and look fantastic)

Six models of the Tank Asymetrique, three of which are skeletonised

Seven new models of the Santos-Dumont, 4 of which are limited editions

A relaunch of the Pasha

And a new Santos de Cartier in all black DLC

They are not messing around this year

Okay, I thought nothing could surprise me any more but nope, there it is

@mavica that's a super good looking typewriter right there